So in the vein of keeping yourselves and hopefully your loved ones relatively carcinogen and poison free, here is a great resource for discovering what personal hygeine products are (relatively) safe.
As it happens, the FDA and many other so called consumer watchdog groups worldwide don't really monitor what goes into many consumables. In fact, not even many companies monitor what they put into their own product formulas! And these formulas are constantly changing. Remember, these are substances you allow to contact your body daily possibly even more than once a day! Some of the ingredients are quite minor and cause no great threat, but some are known carcinogens. If you don't smoke cigarettes because you don't want tar in your lungs, what sense would it make for you to use a shampoo containing tar as a major ingredient? The website ranks these ingredients on a number scale from 0-7 (or 8 or 10) depending on how harmful the ingredients are and sometimes even contains links to studies etc. Browse around and check out some of the brands you have sitting around in your shower, you'll be suprised!
I realize this post applies more to woman than to men, so for all of our 3 ladywires, here ya go. And for those about to douche, we salute you! (36,423)
Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:34 pm Hey now, us guys have hair too, most of us anyway. Dwindling down to some of us as time goes by. And a fear of carcinogens. And those of us that lose the hair on top stand a good chance of shaving everything else off to maintain an asthetic, and win 16 olympic medals, and then take a deserving if over publicised bong load. (Michael Phelps realizes he hasn't smoked anything in 8 years and he is about to be higher than a christian on crack face) Oh to be there as the greatest olympic medal winner hot boxed an entire room with one hit from his superman lungs.
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(Michael Phelps realizes he hasn't smoked anything in 8 years and he is about to be higher than a christian on crack face) Oh to be there as the greatest olympic medal winner hot boxed an entire room with one hit from his superman lungs.
